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ArticleNature biotechnology2017

Exploring protein sequence-function landscapes.

Tyler N Starr, Joseph W Thornton

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Article in Nature biotechnology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. A diverse single-stranded DNA-annealing protein library enables efficient genome editing across bacterial phyla.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  4. Addressing epistasis in the design of protein function.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  6. Sequence-function mapping of proline-rich antimicrobial peptides.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Tyler N StarrGraduate Program in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Joseph W ThorntonDepartments of Ecology &Evolution and Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Funding

Molecular And Cellular Biology Training ProgramT32GM007183 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI GLICK, BENJAMIN S, RICE, PHOEBE A · 1985 to 2021
$23.9M
Mechanisms for the evolution of novel DNA specificity in a transcription factor fR01GM104397 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI THORNTON, JOSEPH W · 2013 to 2016
$1.3M
Deep characterization of the sequence space and evolutionary trajectories of reconstructed ancestral proteins - Resubmission 01R01GM121931 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI THORNTON, JOSEPH W · 2017 to 2020
$1.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM104397NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM121931NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007183
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Amino Acid SequenceProteinsHumansProteins

Identifiers

PMID28178247
PMCPMC6086343

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